Gina Nahai





Gina Nahai

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Gina B. Nahai is a best-selling author, and a professor of Creative Writing at USC. Her novels have been translated into 18 languages, and have been selected as “One of the Best Books of the Year” by the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. They have been finalists for the Orange Award, the IMPAC Award, and the Harold J. Ribalow Award. She is the winner of the Los Angeles Arts Council Award, the Persian Heritage Foundation’s Award, the Simon Rockower Award, and the Phi Kappa Phi Award. Her writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, and Huffington Post. She writes a monthly column for the The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, for which she has been twice a final...more


Average rating: 3.85 · 780 ratings · 145 reviews · 5 distinct works
Moonlight on the Avenue of ...
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Caspian Rain
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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Cry Of The Peacock
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Sunday's Silence
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005
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“A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.”
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“The greatest writers have persistence.”
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